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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1948
Page
2
Chicago grains start the day weaker as Secretary Sawyer notes better European crops may cut US exports. Wheat prices stand at Sep 2.23 Dec 2.26 May 2.22. Corn Sep 1.65 Dec 1.44 May 1.49. Oats Sep 0.73 Dec 0.1644. Soybeans Dec 2.61. Lard Sep 20.02 Jan 20.90.
The excerpt lists quiz solutions including Leo Durocher as question one and 18 year olds who enlist before turning 19 as question three. It states false for the claim about a permanent chairman, notes Turnip Day, and identifies answers for McGrath and the Washington and Pershing names. It mentions a Virgo, a clearance, and the Empire State Building height comparison to the Eiffel Tower.
In Chicago on August 14 salable hogs and cattle show mixed shifts with heavies and choicest steers reaching highs. bulls and feeders up, canners and cutters steady. Baltimore reports hogs steady after slight midweek drop, steers and cows uneven with some gains and many sales at mid to high twenties. Sheep and lambs largely steady with spring lambs 26-28 mixed. ewes 9-11 for slaughter.
Benjamin F Hubbard died Thursday at his home near Grimes. Funeral services will be held at 4 p m tomorrow at Jones funeral home with Rev Emory S Ellmore officiating. Interment will be in Mt Hebron cemetery. Pallbearers are Brook Taylor D K Russell Robert Clevenger John Lazazzera Harry Light and Dewey Brown.
Mikhail Samarin, a self styled fugitive Russian teacher to children of Soviet diplomats, appears in Washington to testify before the House Committee on Un American Activities escorted by Rep. Karl Mundt and Louis Russell. He sought FBI protection after refusing to return to the USSR. A second item reports a marriage dispute in 1944 involving Mrs. Kopp and an arrangement with a young woman in a crowded housing situation. Master Tomasulo directed Kopp to show cause regarding support for his wife and child.
Elizabeth New Jersey August 14 A New Jersey wife testifies in chancery court that a California housing shortage and a shared bed led to her husband Karl Kopp making love to a woman in their bed. She alleges the third party disrupted their marriage and plans.
A sequence of sales notices runs from August through September in Winchester and surrounding areas. Items include antiques and household goods, real estate, dairy cattle and farm equipment, a night club and restaurant setup, and livestock from various executors and estates with specific sale times and addresses. The listings cover Mrs. W A Buncutter, Carrie D Gratchen Estate, Mrs. Della F Jackson, Nellie Maxfield, Paul Corso, Warren Eddy, A M Nicodemus, Smith & Janney, George Helsley, and Alfred Demazzon among others.
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